AI code wreaked havoc with Amazon outage, and now the company is making tight rules

As reported by the Financial Times, Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage in December after engineers let its Kiro AI coding tool update code without requiring any oversight. Kiro decided the best solution was to “delete and recreate the environment.” That’s one way to fix a problem, I suppose.

Treat your tax prep like a professional project with Adobe Acrobat

We optimize our morning routines, our fitness regimens, and our investment portfolios, yet many of us still approach tax season like a frantic scavenger hunt. If your income streams are diversified: balancing a standard W-2 with 1099s from freelance contracts, brand partnerships, or tracking the overhead expenses for a small business, the paperwork multiplies exponentially.

Amazon wants you to shop for groceries online as it shutters retail stores

The move marks a quiet but decisive end to Amazon’s long experiment with running its own standalone grocery chains. Amazon Fresh supermarkets and Amazon Go convenience stores were meant to showcase cashierless tech and a modern retail experience. However, Amazon now admits the model never quite worked the way it hoped.